Commercial Greenhouse

I have recently built a commercial greenhouse and must say that I am pleased with it. The builder explained a lot of things to me, and I learned as much about planting as I did about green houses. There is no firm line between commercial greenhouses and ones for private use. Putting together a commercial greenhouse is largely a matter of what you are doing with it.

You see, I decided to build a greenhouse long ago, and had succeeded efficiently. My greenhouse was by far the best one in the neighbourhood. I grew all kinds of things, from rare and exotic plants to staple crops. Having a greenhouse has been fun, but I had been growing so many medicinal herbs that I was actually getting orders for them. Having a brand-new, cold frame greenhouse seemed like the natural solution.

When I decided to upgrade to a commercial greenhouse, however, I was mostly thinking about incorporating a bigger space. I was surprised when my builder told me that I did not need a whole new commercial greenhouse. He agreed with my idea to add on some space, but he suggested that if I reorganized the greenhouse I already had, I could just build a separate addendum. I decided to take his opinion seriously, since he had no reason to lie to me.

He could have made a lot more money by building a brand-new greenhouse, but instead he told me that I should organize my plants more efficiently. He told me that most people who grow in greenhouses do not realize how little room plants actually need. If the greenhouse has sufficient oxygen, the temperature and moisture content are carefully regulated, a commercial greenhouse can be literally packed with plants.

The great thing about running the commercial greenhouse according to his plans was that it actually saved me a lot of energy. You see, the more carefully packed your greenhouse is, the less energy it uses. There are more plants to suck up the available water and heat, and it is easier to control all of the climate factors in a smaller space.

Sometimes I still think about how neat it would be to have the huge greenhouse that I had originally envisioned, but I know I'm better off the way things ended up.